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Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips, a British journalist, broadcaster and author, writes a weekly column for JNS. Currently a columnist for The Times of London, her new book, Fighting the Hate: A Handbook for Jews Under Siege, has just been published by Wicked Son. Her previous book, The Builder’s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West and Why Only They Can Save It, was published in 2025. Access her work at: melaniephillips.substack.com.

U.S. Democrat administrations have continued to interfere in Ireland and Israel in ways that are deeply partisan, incentivize yet more terrorist violence and dump upon their purported allies.
The true agenda of Israel’s mass protests has been laid bare.
The massive protests rocking the country are about far more than judicial reform.
America and Britain undermine Israel’s security and defense against existential attack by sanitizing, promoting and funding Palestinian Arabs, whose active cause remains the destruction of the Jewish state.
While the West is increasingly alienated from democracy, Israel’s internal convulsions present terrifying dangers.
Universalism has undermined it from both inside and out.
The administration crosses two ominous red lines.
A new book is essential to understanding the current lunacy over Israel and the global jihad.
The U.K. government’s Prevent program fails to recognize the all-important continuum between non-violent Islamist narratives and terrorist networks.
As the culture hurtles towards the precipice, Diaspora Jews are like rabbits caught in the headlights.
Israel’s political upheaval reflects partisan tunnel vision on all sides.
The shallowness of progressive Jews is creating a crisis for the Jewish world.